Student-Led Projects

Zero Food Waste is a student-led project at UCL that aims to tackle food waste on campus. We redistribute food from where it is in excess to where it is in need: from UCL cafés to homeless shelters and a surplus food bank.

DanceIt!

At Engineers Without Borders, we aim to inspire young students to love science. Going to classes and working at education fairs, we run fun activities to give a more practical and hands on approach to the science that are taught to students in the classroom.

In association with the Volunteering Service, the CAJ Grassroots Human Rights Project focuses on educating young people in local secondary schools about human rights and legal issues. Our aim is to raise awareness about human rights and push students to critically consider relevant issues.

Headucate UCL aims to tackle mental health stigma and end discrimination by running interactive workshops in schools around London! We will be working with school children and are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our team - no prior experience/knowledge required.

Project Impactive is building the future of assistive tech. 

We're a tight knit community of volunteers who run Model United Nations and Public Speaking Workshops in schools across the UK.

Are you passionate about widening participation in medicine and allied health professions? Do you love teaching or want to develop your teaching skills? If so, then this is the project for you!

What do we do?

Origami Volunteering Project (OVP) is a student-lead volunteering organisation that aims to provide stress-relief and a creativity outlet through the art of origami.

UCL Roots & Shoots is a project affiliated with the Jane Goodall Institute committed to making a better world for people, animals and the environment.

Who are we?

Save a Baby's Life is a voluntary organisation, run by UCL students in conjunction with the Royal Life Saving Society since 2011.

Suture the Future aims to overcome the dichotomy which exists between underprivileged children and those who have the advantages of having a better education.

The UCL Teddy Bear Clinic is a student led volunteering project that has been running for the past 15 years! We teach primary school students about health and safety in a fun and informative way. The sessions last for one hour on Wednesday afternoons.

Hello and welcome to AcaMedics!

Do you have the desire to contribute to clinical science using Evidence Based Medicine? Then we are the society for you!

UCL Student Hospital Fun Team is an award-winning volunteering organisation that aims to create a sense of normality for children and adolescents in hospital with games and conversations.

UCL Marrow work alongside the charity Anthony Nolan to help save the lives of people with blood cancer by signing people onto the stem cell register. For various reasons, young people like us make the best donors – with a real chance of saving a life.

Welcome to Sexpression UCL

Welcome to Kickstart — UCL Taekwondo’s very own volunteering project!!

Are you appalled by the excessive amount of litter found around UCL and in London? Do you wish to do something about it?

Empowering young people affected by violence to keep themselves and others safe.

StreetDoctors is a national charity that puts young people at the centre of emergency first-aid provision and empowers them to become part of the solution to violence.

Welcome to Debating Society!

As part of our volunteering project, we offer debating competition at UCL Campus for schools. 

Volunteers will deliver evidence-based workshops on pregnancy decision-making and abortion to school students, which comply with best practice and support key public health objectives. Our workshops encompass the practical aspects of pregnancy decision making including contrac

The aim of this new project is to increase awareness about the blood, tissue and organ donor crisis in the UK, which has been exacerbated by the difficulties posed by COVID-19.

Love to perform your musical talent? Fond of Classical Music?

Interested in community engagement programme ? Violin Viola Cello Piano?

Looking to encourage young people to get involved in sport? Join Netschool!

We are a group of volunteers from the RUMS Netball Club who strive to increase diversity in netball by teaching the sport to public schools based in London. 

We aim to create an empowered community of refugees & students through collective learning at UCL.

TutorMe is a student-led volunteering project supported by Enactus UK. Our project aims to provide academic support by connecting UCL students with GCSE and A-Level pupils from UK schools and charities on a digital platform.

Welcome to Make a Smile!

We believe that all children deserve a childhood and understand that illness or disability can make this very difficult for some children. 

Hello! 👋

We are the Ultimate Frisbee Club. As part of our volunteering project, we run frisbee sessions with young poeple in schools. 

Cultured Minds explores the interrelationship between mental health and culture by increasing beneficiaries’ cross-cultural sensitivity on how mental health is perceived in various countries/regions across the world.

Our 11th International Undergraduate & Foundation Surgery Conference (iNUGSC) is COMPLETELY student-led and is the largest student-led conference in the UK. 

AIM

The ultimate goal of our volunteering activity is to help in providing a temporary shelter for the homeless. In collaboration with Thames Reach, we will be working in one(or more) of their 3 sites of hotels in London by collaborating with Thames Reach.

Trans Healthcare Now is a student-led volunteering project that aims to increase knowledge and awareness of trans healthcare inequalities within the UK.

Hi everyone this is the Salsa Society.

Our goal is to reconnect with the elderly and help keep them active, through several fun salsa sessions. 

Around 50% of cases of blindness in the UK are preventable. Eyeducate is a medical student led volunteering project that works to educate school children on eye care and to encourage healthy habits. 

Engage with CancerCare: Your Monthly Cancer Education Resource

🔢 Are you a Maths enthusiast? If so, this project is for you!

We're excited to introduce the Language Cafe, a student-led volunteering project! Our interactive workshops will run every Wednesday evening during term time, with each session focusing on a specific subject, like a doctor's appointment and related key vocabulary.

We are running two concert perfomances over the Christmas period to support our local hospital UCLH. This includes string renditions of Christmas carols and other seasonal music to support patients and their families.

The aim of our project is to provide a fun empowering space for girls to play football. Biweekly football sessions with girls will run in partnership with community organizations and the UCL Women's Football Club.

Hello! 👋 We are a group of students from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Society that offer storytelling sessions involving Dungeons and Dragons and other roleplaying games in schools. 

UCL Mens Hockey Club are organising a school trip for Hockey Inner City. This is a continuation of the collaboration between the two parties as UCL Mens Hockey Club volunteer weekly at Hockey Inner City's sessions for state-educated children in South London.

Our project hopes to help remove some of the barriers that some students experience when trying to enter Medical School.

Hello from the 93% Club! 👋

The 93% Club is a network of state-educated university students dedicated to levelling the playing field for students who were educated at state schools and tackling education inequality. 

Hello! 👋 Are you interested in the arts and creative industry? 

InveSTEMators is a new student-led project at UCL. We’re a group of volunteers working with Scouts and secondary schools to deliver STEM-based workshops (Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering).

Do you like to read? Interested in working with children? Have an hour a week to volunteer? Then join the Reading Club at Grange Primary School!

We’re looking for volunteers to join our weekly term time reading hour with children in Bermondsey, London.

Do you like reading and want to spread the joy of reading to others? 📚